Comparison

Memory Palace vs Scroll

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Memory Palace

Create and organize memory palaces using text, photos, and panoramas. Review your routes step-by-step to enhance recall for speeches, lists, and sequences. This tool focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow.

Highlights
  • Create palaces and loci
  • Use photos as visual references
  • Mark loci on images/panoramas
  • Combine text, photo, and panorama loci
  • Refine locus order
  • Step-by-step route review
  • Walkthrough mode
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Build memory palaces with ordered loci, photos of places, and supported real-world panoramas — then review your palace route step by step. Memory Palace is a focused Method of Loci tool for building stable palace routes and keeping your loci and visual references organized in one place. A palace can be as simple as an ordered list of text-only loci. It can also be visual: import photos of rooms, streets, landmarks, or other places, add supported panorama scenes, mark one or more loci on an image, and keep those loci in the same palace route. Some loci may remain text-only when a photo or panorama is unavailable, or when the place exists only in your imagination. Create and manage your palace • Create palaces and loci • Use photos of places as optional visual references • Mark one or more loci on a photo or panorama • Keep text-only, photo-based, and panorama-based loci in one palace route • Refine the order of loci while building your palace route • Review existing palace routes without hunting through spreadsheets, documents, or annotated image files Review the palace route • Move through loci one by one in Walkthrough mode, following the same palace route each time • Revisit the visual reference when a locus has one • Return to saved panorama views for supported panorama loci Good for material with an order — or material you choose to arrange into one • Speeches, presentations, and scripts • Ordered lists, checklists, and procedures • Timelines, historical sequences, and event chains • Exam outlines, classification systems, and frameworks • Poems, quotations, passages, and other ordered content • Terminology or vocabulary lists you choose to organize into a route Memory Palace does not try to become another notes app, brain game, or deck-first flashcard app. It focuses on the memory palace structure and review flow: palaces, ordered loci, optional visual references, and Walkthrough mode. Memory Palace keeps the palace structure. You choose what each locus is meant to cue in your own memory. Built from real memory-sport practice: after placing 6th overall at the 2011 World Memory Championship, the creator built Memory Palace to solve a practical problem — keeping thousands of loci across more than a hundred palaces organized over years of use. Start with a palace, create your first locus, and walk the palace route to remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Scroll

Features
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Personal finance, explained one short lesson at a time. Learn how money, tax and investing actually work in about a minute a day. Payslip deductions you can't explain. A tax code that means nothing to you. A pension you've never looked at. Scroll turns all of it into short, plain-English lessons you can read while the kettle boils, with a quick quiz after each one so it sticks. HOW IT WORKS • Swipe up for your next lesson. Each one takes about a minute to read. • Answer a one-question quiz to check it landed. • Earn XP, keep a daily streak going and collect 34 badges. • Save lessons worth rereading, or browse the library by topic. 950+ LESSONS ON THE MONEY STUFF THAT MATTERS Payslips and tax, saving and budgeting, debt, investing for beginners, pensions and retirement, property, scams, and the behavioural traps that quietly cost people money. YOUR COUNTRY'S RULES Most money advice is written for one country. Scroll covers 23 markets, including the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, Japan, Singapore, Brazil and much of Europe. You get your own currency and the accounts you actually use: ISAs and pensions in the UK, 401(k)s and Roth IRAs in the US, super in Australia, TFSAs and RRSPs in Canada. Everywhere else, the International setting covers the universal lessons in the currency you pick. 9 CALCULATORS Take-home pay, compound interest, savings rate, mortgage, emergency fund, debt payoff, stamp duty and property transfer tax, retirement allowance and salary sacrifice. They use the same local tax rules as the lessons, and what you type stays on your phone. MADE FOR YOU Tell Scroll your country, experience level and goals, and your feed is built around your answers. It works for complete beginners and still has something new if you already invest. Pick a time for a daily reminder and it'll nudge you then. FREE, WITH AN UPGRADE IF YOU WANT IT The free version isn't a trial. You get 5 lessons a day, 6 of the 9 topics and 2 calculators, for as long as you like. Scroll Plus adds: • Unlimited lessons • The UK accounts, property and tax topics • All 9 calculators • Deep dives for when one screen isn't enough • Offline reading Plus comes as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off lifetime purchase, with prices shown in your currency before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. WHAT SCROLL ISN'T Scroll is for learning. It never connects to your bank, never sees your transactions and never asks for account details. It isn't a budgeting app, a broker or financial advice. For decisions about your own money, speak to a qualified professional. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://usescroll.app/privacy

Screenshots

Memory Palace4 screens
Scroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Memory Palace at every 2 weeks against Scroll's every 5 weeks. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Memory Palace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Scroll sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Memory Palace against 5.0 for Scroll. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Memory Palace ships an update every 2 weeks, Scroll every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Memory Palace versus Scroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMemory PalaceScroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer剑津 付Wilson Mucheke

Customer experience

Memory Palace

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scroll

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Memory Palace

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$39.991 Year
3 purchases

Scroll

Subscriptions2
  • Scroll Plus · Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Scroll Plus · Monthly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Scroll Plus - Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Memory Palace free?
Memory Palace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scroll free?
Scroll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Memory Palace or Scroll?
Memory Palace and Scroll are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Memory Palace or Scroll have ads?
Neither Memory Palace nor Scroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Memory Palace or Scroll?
Memory Palace ships an update every 2 weeks, and Scroll every 5 weeks. Most recently, Memory Palace was updated on October 22, 2026 and Scroll on October 24, 2026.

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